She looked well and truly pissed, however.

“You’re taking advantage of him. I can’t believe you! This is the scummiest thing I’ve ever heard of you doing.”

Jim bristled. “Hey! I’m not ‘scummy’,” he protested. “I’m charmingly adventurous.”

“You tried to make out with a tricorder on a *dare*,” Uhura shot back.

Stupid Gaila. If he’d known that she was going to go blabbing about all of his exploits to his future boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend,

he wouldn’t have told her so damn much.